08-15-2011, 09:41 PM
A few things,
Having him standing will not work that well visually, for a simple change, I just suggest tucking the feet backwards, and if you feel they need an animation, have them give a cutesy half-kick every once in awhile
Another thing I notice is that the parts don't seem to be attached to the body, they moove too freely up and down, try having them pivot around one point on the body, which should be kept a static image in animation, but feel free to move the body's location.
The body looks much rounder than the actual pokemon's does, try flattening it out a bit, and he also seems to usually face going upwards, you don't need to, but it'l make it more like the official sprites.
For the antennae, in all the pokemon sprites, they use a darker color for the blue part of them, where as you use lighter colors, try changing it to a darker shade and see if it looks more defined.
Also, one big thing is that the drawing style changes with almost each body part, the eyes look like they were made of clay, the body and antennae look brighter and less outlined than everywhere else, and the hands look like they were handdrawn, and the best style of the three. If I were you, I'd switch to the style of the arms, they look a bit 2d, but they look the best done of all of them.
Having him standing will not work that well visually, for a simple change, I just suggest tucking the feet backwards, and if you feel they need an animation, have them give a cutesy half-kick every once in awhile
Another thing I notice is that the parts don't seem to be attached to the body, they moove too freely up and down, try having them pivot around one point on the body, which should be kept a static image in animation, but feel free to move the body's location.
The body looks much rounder than the actual pokemon's does, try flattening it out a bit, and he also seems to usually face going upwards, you don't need to, but it'l make it more like the official sprites.
For the antennae, in all the pokemon sprites, they use a darker color for the blue part of them, where as you use lighter colors, try changing it to a darker shade and see if it looks more defined.
Also, one big thing is that the drawing style changes with almost each body part, the eyes look like they were made of clay, the body and antennae look brighter and less outlined than everywhere else, and the hands look like they were handdrawn, and the best style of the three. If I were you, I'd switch to the style of the arms, they look a bit 2d, but they look the best done of all of them.